Recently, I had to convert one of my older projects from Mercurial to Git. It turns out there’s an app for that. It’s called fast-export and it works very well, preserving all of your history and migrating from Mercurial to Git very quickly. This article walks you through the relatively simple process, with a caveat for Mac OS X users.
My latest PeepCode screencast, Meet Sinatra has just been released.
These are instructions for compiling and installing a 64-bit version of MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database, on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
These are instructions for compiling and installing Git, a free, fast, and efficient distributed version control system, on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
These are instructions for compiling and installing Mercurial, a fast and lightweight source control management system, on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
These are instructions for compiling and installing 64-bit Ruby, Rubygems, and Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard.
TextMate’s command-left/right arrow key functionality (one of the most commonly used keystrokes), is broken in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Here’s the fix.
I’m totally thrilled to announce the launch of Playgrounder today, a website helping parents and kids find the very best stuff. In addition to daily product coverage and news, Playgrounder also features bite-sized articles on events, destinations, and services geared toward parents and kids.
My second PeepCode screencast, Meet Mercurial, has just gone live. The screencast is a 50 minute exploration of Mercurial, a distributed version control system that offers a faster and more agile way of managing projects. It’s used by projects like Mozilla, Python, Adium, and companies like Google and Sun.
Overlapr is a mini-app I built yesterday morning to display commonalities between Twitter users, starting with common followers and common friends.
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article discussing my top 10 programming fonts. You responded with a handful of suggestions for fonts that didn’t make it into the list, like Anonymous, by Mark Simonson. Yesterday, Mark released a brand new font, Anonymous Pro, which is so fantastic that it has become my monospace font of choice. Here are the details and screenshots.
Many people are familiar with the advantages of using Git and GitHub to manage their projects and source code, but deploying an ExpressionEngine installation for deployment in this way can be a bit tricky. This article details the Capistrano recipe I’ve created specifically for automating the management and deployment of an ExpressionEngine website, with provisions for maintaining uploaded content across deployments, omitting unwanted content from the repository, setting the correct permissions, and more. The recipe also handles creating the server-side directories you’ll need to accomplish these tasks in a completely automated way.
In the past, we’ve had to decide between tiny monospace fonts or jagged edges. But today, modern operating systems do a great job of anti-aliasing, making monospace fonts look great at any size.
Here’s a round-up of the top 10 readily-available monospace fonts for your coding enjoyment, with descriptions, visual examples and samples, and download links for each.
In a previous article, I discussed the switch from my Ruby on Rails publishing system to ExpressionEngine. In this article, I’ve written a more detailed breakdown including the list of feature requirements, plugins and modules, and some of the compromises I made as a part of this switch.
I’ve been building publishing tools for more than 10 years, and I finally realized that I was spending more time tweaking code than I was writing. I needed new features and I didn’t have time to implement them. It was time to make a change to a new publishing platform ... one I didn’t write.
Whereby I apologize for the recent RSS-feed issues, which may have caused you to endure ancient articles appearing as unread in your RSS reader.
These are instructions for compiling and installing Ruby, Rubygems, Ruby on Rails, and Mongrel on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). I walk you through getting your system ready for building and compiling open source software, and expand on the benefits of building your own open source utilities.
What follows is a set of instructions for compiling, building, and installing MySQL 5. These instructions should work perfectly on both Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard), and they may even work on other UNIX and Linux systems.
Cork’d has been acquired by a newly formed company, helmed by Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV fame. We’re psyched, and this means only great things for Cork’d members. Cork’d will remain a free, member-driven community. Its wine database will increase in a big way, the data will become more accurate, and tons of new features are already being added
What follows are instructions for building and installing the following applications on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) along with their supportive software. I’ve been told that these steps work just fine on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) as well.
What follows are instructions for manually building and installing Ruby on Rails, LightTPD, MySQL, and their related, supportive applications on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
Today’s UNIX and UNIX-like systems (such as Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc.) allow you to create a special place in the filesystem where you can compile and install your own software independent of and without affecting the rest of the system. This article explains both how and why you should use this method.
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